5.2. Table Writer Factory

class pytablewriter.TableWriterFactory

A factory class of table writer classes.

classmethod create_from_file_extension(file_extension: str, **kwargs: Any) → AbstractTableWriter

Create a table writer class instance from a file extension. Supported file extensions are as follows:

Extension	Writer Class
".adoc"	AsciiDocTableWriter
".asciidoc"	AsciiDocTableWriter
".asc"	AsciiDocTableWriter
".css"	CssTableWriter
".csv"	CsvTableWriter
".htm"	HtmlTableWriter
".html"	HtmlTableWriter
".js"	JavaScriptTableWriter
".json"	JsonTableWriter
".jsonl"	JsonLinesTableWriter
".ltsv"	LtsvTableWriter
".ldjson"	JsonLinesTableWriter
".md"	MarkdownTableWriter
".ndjson"	JsonLinesTableWriter
".py"	PythonCodeTableWriter
".rst"	RstGridTableWriter
".tsv"	TsvTableWriter
".xls"	ExcelXlsTableWriter
".xlsx"	ExcelXlsxTableWriter
".sqlite"	SqliteTableWriter
".sqlite3"	SqliteTableWriter
".tsv"	TsvTableWriter
".toml"	TomlTableWriter
".yml"	YamlTableWriter

Parameters:

• file_extension (str) – File extension string (case insensitive).

• kwargs – Keyword arguments that pass to a writer class constructor.

Returns:

Writer instance that coincides with the file_extension.

Return type:

TableWriterInterface

Raises:

pytablewriter.WriterNotFoundError – If an appropriate writer is not found for the file extension.

classmethod create_from_format_name(format_name: str, **kwargs: Any) → AbstractTableWriter

Create a table writer class instance from a format name. Supported file format names are as follows:

Format name	Writer Class
"adoc"	AsciiDocTableWriter
"asciidoc"	AsciiDocTableWriter
"css"	CssTableWriter
"csv"	CsvTableWriter
"elasticsearch"	ElasticsearchWriter
"excel"	ExcelXlsxTableWriter
"html"/"htm"	HtmlTableWriter
"javascript"/"js"	JavaScriptTableWriter
"json"	JsonTableWriter
"json_lines"	JsonLinesTableWriter
"latex_matrix"	LatexMatrixWriter
"latex_table"	LatexTableWriter
"ldjson"	JsonLinesTableWriter
"ltsv"	LtsvTableWriter
"markdown"/"md"	MarkdownTableWriter
"mediawiki"	MediaWikiTableWriter
"null"	NullTableWriter
"pandas"	PandasDataFrameWriter
"py"/"python"	PythonCodeTableWriter
"rst"/"rst_grid"/"rst_grid_table"	RstGridTableWriter
"rst_simple"/"rst_simple_table"	RstSimpleTableWriter
"rst_csv"/"rst_csv_table"	RstCsvTableWriter
"sqlite"	SqliteTableWriter
"ssv"	SpaceAlignedTableWriter
"tsv"	TsvTableWriter
"toml"	TomlTableWriter
"unicode"	UnicodeTableWriter
"yaml"	YamlTableWriter

Parameters:

• format_name (str) – Format name string (case insensitive).

• kwargs – Keyword arguments that pass to a writer class constructor.

Returns:

Writer instance that coincides with the format_name:

Return type:

TableWriterInterface

Raises:

pytablewriter.WriterNotFoundError – If an appropriate writer is not found for for the format.

classmethod get_extensions() → List[str]

Returns:

Available file extensions.

Return type:

list

Example:

>>> import pytablewriter as ptw
>>> for name in ptw.TableWriterFactory.get_extensions():
...     print(name)
...
adoc
asc
asciidoc
css
csv
htm
html
js
json
jsonl
ldjson
ltsv
md
ndjson
py
rst
sqlite
sqlite3
tex
toml
tsv
xls
xlsx
yml

classmethod get_format_names() → List[str]

Returns:

Available format names.

Return type:

list

Example:

>>> import pytablewriter as ptw
>>> for name in ptw.TableWriterFactory.get_format_names():
...     print(name)
...
adoc
asciidoc
bold_unicode
borderless
css
csv
elasticsearch
excel
htm
html
javascript
js
json
json_lines
jsonl
latex_matrix
latex_table
ldjson
ltsv
markdown
md
mediawiki
ndjson
null
numpy
pandas
pandas_pickle
py
python
rst
rst_csv
rst_csv_table
rst_grid
rst_grid_table
rst_simple
rst_simple_table
space_aligned
sqlite
ssv
toml
tsv
unicode
yaml